The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-31
THE SUMMER GIRL AT THE BEACH.
Cosby Notes About People and Their
DoingS.


Cosby Notes About People and Their
Doings.
New York, July 3o.-A new spirit
animates the summer girl at the beach.
She has taken fresh departure and her
tactics add zest to life at Ashury
Park. In the big caravansanes of hotels
she is as she was last summer and the sum
mer before that, and as she will be next
summer, and for aught one knows world
without end, amen. She wears her en-
broidered muslins and her point d esprit
gowns she is radiant in cream twilled fan
mel, and in all manner of delicate afternoon
tea effects. The colors of the rainbow are
in her parasol. She is charming, and If well
directed labor can accomplish it she will
continue charming.
The cottager is not hampered by hotel re-
strlctions. The cottage glrl belongs to
class that does as it pleaseS at home, and
accordingly it does as it pleases at the sea
shore The summer girl of the cottage has
established new set of August conventions.
She takes her idea from her brother, | sup
pose What an homogeneous couple young
man and maid have been in Augusts Of past
years He in flannel shirt, checked or per-
hapS blue, in battered looking knickerbock-
ers, as if his bicycle had rolled him twice
day in the dust, in cloth cap or rusty hcl-
met; she dainty, spic and span, just out Of
the modiste's hands. This summer she lays
down the law that if she is not athletic she
must at least look as if she We're. and seem
to be getting the full value of her vacation
time. Laces and soft figured French goods.
Not any for her this month, not by day
light at least. To be up with the times she
must have some sort of red or brown felt
hat without trimming, not too new. A
blouse waist is in reggie, or Norfolk jacket,
or, as the utmost latitude permitted,a beited
jersey with a rough and ready effect A
short undraped skirt of some ready-for- all
that-comes, though not necessarily unplc-
turesque, material and high boots made for
this especial service complete the new outfit
that one begins to see on the sands. This
years type of summer girl wears no gloves.
She likes to get her hands Drowned. She
doesn't seem to object to q freckle, regard
ing it as diploma of graduation from the
best summer school. Taking it all in all,
the more unconventional her garb the better
it suits the new summer convcntionalities.
Girls vie with each other in this as in all
other dress fancies they take up, and if they
don't play tennis or pull a boat one whit
more energetically than they did last year.
they could if they liked, which in the inter
ests of out Of door living is at least some
thing gained
A BRAVE LITTLE WOMAN.
A daintily clad little womnn-she was one
of the best operators as well as the prettiest
whom | had noticed several times in a
down town typewriting Office, was missing
from her desk the other day. The plump,
prosperous looking head of the establish
ment smoothed down some rebellous red
dsh-brown locks, as she explained, to an ac-
companying clatter and bang, as il the
whole alphabet were out on spree. II
didn't expect to keep her long" she said.
"She came to me year a ago to learn the
business, and her mother-she wore dia-
monds-came with her half apOlogizng for
the daughters whim.' The two of them
wore gowns that turned the heads of the
whole office, and looked as if they had
money enough and to spare. 1t turned out
when was i'll my new apprentices conf
depce q little that she was engaged to law
student-an impecunious One-and they
wanted to marry as soon as he was admit
ted to the bar Papa had absolutely re-
fused his consent and mammal frowned on
the whole thing. So what does my lady do
but get permission, without assigning any
reason for the freak, to learn typewriting-
she is studying shorthand too+-having taken
the ilea into her head that if she and her
law student chose to marry when the time
came, she could support the family until the
appearance of some fees. They had the knot
tied couple of days ago, the household
powers to the contrary notwithstanding,
and are taking a weeks holiday somewhere
down ON the shore. She told me she should
be ready for work when she came back and
! think she will. She has been earning 81 u
week and is about expert enough to get $40
now That will help them out for a while,
though | fancy her husband won't leave her
here long" The next question in the matri-
mOnial market, some folks say, will be-
"What is her salary" or "has she had a
raise of later
CAUGHT IN A STORM
The month just past has been one of ex-
traordinary heat and has had more than the
usual allowance of fierce winds and thunder
storms-a combination calculated at once to
drive many people to the seashore and to
produce some comiCal complications among
them after they get there. One day, ct one
OF our big beaches, a young LADY was i'll
bathing, when she noticed a black cloud ris-
ing that seemed to promise wind and rain
She made dash for the bathing house, got
inside, and was preparing to array herself,
having taken off her wet bathing clothes as
preliminary, when bang come the wind
and knocked the frail bath house clean over
The girl gave a shrek, and hastily gather
ing such of her clothes about her as she
COuill COlieCU ran through Ine ram IOT HeT
rooms, a very moist and mortified being, if
anybody had had time in the binding squat
that followed to notice her. The same day,
and at the same place, one woman got the
idea that all the buildings were going 20
blow over, so she threw herself fat on tho
sand with the rain pelting full on her I'M
protected head till the storm WAS over.
There are graver aspects OF the situation
than there. There has never been month
probably, when travel was more uncom-
Portable and dangerous, the cars more
crowded, tempers more fragile. profanity
more common. A Coney Island train on
sweltering hot Sunday at the rush hours
gives an observer a poor opinion Of human
ity if at all inclined to pessimism. In the
history of the country there have been few
more sickly and fatal months Babies have
died by the thousands everywhere, and
older people much more rapidly than in
reasonable weather. Mothers have been
turned back from the sick children's float
ing hospital excursions with their babies in
their arms because the little sufferers were
so far gone that they would die before the
return. There has been constant process
sion Of little white hearses TO the GENE
teres, and bereavement rests on countless
squalid tenements throughout the city.